Windows Mobile News On February 27 2008
Feb 27th, 2008 by Tariq Bamadhaj
Move Over Yahoo, Opera Mobile Chooses Google
What this means is that the default search engine for all future Opera Mobile products (which include Opera Mobile For Windows Mobile and Opera Mini) will have Google as the default search engine. No more having to switch from Yahoo anymore. This change will go into effect for both new and current users from March 1st 2008. I think this was long overdue, especially since Google is the search engine of choice for the majority of web searches. [via the::unwired]
New Daylight Savings Time Update For Windows Mobile
With the change in daylight savings time calculation in the US, Microsoft released a patch back in 2007 to counter the potential problem. But that was before the bill was signed. Now that it’s in effect, there were certain regions that need updating and for that, a new patch has surfaced. This one replaces the old one but not everyone needs it, especially if you are not affected by the changes to begin with. Note that this is not just for US-based users but those outside the US as well. You can find out here if you need the update. [via Pocket PC Thoughts]
Are You Infected By The WinCE/InfoJack Trojan?
There seems to be a trojan for the Windows Mobile platform out and about. The trojan is distributed by being packed inside legitimate installation files such as Google Maps and installs itself when you install the application. So how do you protect yourself from this? For one, do not download software from sites that you do not trust. Or even better, look for the developer’s site and download directly from them. That would definitely be the safest method. [via the::unwired]
LinkedIn Goes Mobile
Users of LinkedIn can now use it on their Windows Mobile, thanks to a web version of it specially created for the mobile platform. However, it’s not as powerful as accessing it from your PC because you will not be able to answer questions, update profile, accept/decline invitations or reply to a job posting. You will, however, be able to search and view contacts, updates and your own profile. [via Windows Mobile Louisville]
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I’m glad to know that Opera finally switch to Google, it’s the best search engine ever made.
These days everyone can make software, it’s easy, so the bad ware is moving to mobile devices, be prepared to install antivirus and firewall on your mobile device
I think that there are so few stories of bad stuff happening, that theres not really a market for antivirus programs yet. It will probably have to go wrong seriously a few times before people will really find the need for antivirus software. Right now the most popular software comes straight from the developer or sites like Handango, and if they mess up they seriously lose customers. And smaller developers who want to do bad, don’t really have a big audience, so hopefully that keeps them from being a serious threat at this point!
Initially I thought Windows Mobile was very insecure because it was from Microsoft but since there were no reports after a while, I just ignored that aspect. But with this, I guess we’ll all have to take extra steps.
There’s nothing in your mobile device that can prevent any software to take your private data and send it to someone, that’s a big flaw in windows mobile.
I doubt there is anything in mobile devices that does this to begin with? Looks like mobile manufacturers will have to think of something with more and more people relying on their mobile devices.
I’m thinking the same. There might be many small developers, but I guess tools to hack WM phones etc don’t get a lot of exposure, and if something like it would rise to the surface, it would be discussed on forums/blogs really fast. That’s the good part about blogs covering the news that is brought through other blogs, you’ll be sure that interesting news (both good and bad) reaches you one way or another!
And in the end, running Sprite Backup every morning makes sure that if something bad happens, I can simply hard reset my device and restore the backup from that morning.
Unless it messes up my storage card first……….
The only defense right now is to encrypt private data or not installing any extra software
The first will make the device slower (or am I wrong?) while the second is not possible for me